Damien Chazelle Quotes
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.
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It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
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I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
